It’s the end of September! This is my last Sunday edition for a while. Valerie will be taking over as we shift into October. I’ve enjoyed spending the last two months with y’all on Sundays! My boys (hubby and two sons) are out camping this weekend with their Trail Life troop. They always look forward […]

In the DC Area at least, the weather this past week has been divine. Sunny and cool and just the perfect taste of fall. Even the rain we’ve had (and I feel a little sad that we’ve had rain when the folks out West could use it so much more than us) has been fall-like. […]

More from the aquarium there on the left. FROGS! Youngest boy is enamored of frogs and we had a blast looking for all the various poison dart frogs that the aquarium had to view. Fun fact: poison dart frogs bred in captivity aren’t usually poisonous! The frogs in the wild develop their poison from the […]

Last month, my husband and older son went to Trail Life camp in Pennsylvania. I was glad they still got to go, but I was also a little concerned — between the virus situation and being on my own with the youngest for a week (he’s very social and he and his brother play together […]

Today is the last Sunday of August. It’s strange this year, since most of my normal “end of summer” and “back to school” activities haven’t happened (or they’ve happened in such a strange way that they don’t feel real.) And yet, it’s also officially Pumpkin Spice season. I don’t really go to Starbucks anymore – […]

Happy Sunday! The title image shows a New Mexico inspired quilt that my sister made. It hangs on my living room wall and I love not only the colors that it adds, but the fun reminders of where we grew up. But that’s the end of New Mexico nostalgia for a little while. We’re in […]

Can you believe we’re at the mid-point of August?! Hopefully you stopped by on Thursday this week when we kicked off our annual Back-to-School giveaway. We heard your clamoring for paperbacks and the ladies who blog here rose to the challenge! There are paperbacks galore! I’ll spend some Sundays looking at prize packages over the […]

I know I’ve mentioned before that I spent the first eleven years of my life in Northern New Mexico. Even though I don’t live there anymore – and haven’t for 35 years (and wow, that seems like a big number, but I checked the math twice and it pans out. *cough* ) – it will […]

Happy August! I always feel like August is the beginning of back to school time. Of course, this year things are just bizarre, but I still feel like it should be back to school time. Locally, our public schools have all chosen to remain 100% virtual for at least the first quarter. I suspect they’ll […]

Welcome to the last camping trip — er, Sunday — in July! This week’s photos were taken eleven months ago at a little lake on the British Columbia/ Washington border. We’d planned another campout for early July this year, but life happened, so I dug back in my archives for an earlier excursion! I love […]